Advanced materials for energy harvesting and soft robotics: Emerging frontiers to enhance piezoelectric performance and functionality

L Persano, A Camposeo, F Matino, R Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric energy harvesting captures mechanical energy from a number of sources,
such as vibrations, the movement of objects and bodies, impact events, and fluid flow to …

Recent advances in electrically driven soft actuators across dimensional scales from 2D to 3D

D Li, J Li, P Wu, G Zhao, Q Qu… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soft actuators have been an important research focus in robotics due to their advantages in
nondestructive contact and excellent motion adaptability, which enable flexible …

Dynamics modeling and experiment validation for piezoelectric-transmission-wing system

L Wang, B Song, X Yang, X Lang, Z Sun - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Aiming at the challenge of predicting the dynamic behavior of the flapping wing in the
piezoelectric-transmission-wing (PTW) wingbeat system, a lumped-parameter model …

Thin Film Piezoelectric Nanogenerator Based on (100)-Oriented Nanocrystalline AlN Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition at Room Temperature

W Li, Y Cao, N Sepúlveda - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
In wearable or implantable biomedical devices that typically rely on battery power for
diagnostics or operation, the development of flexible piezoelectric nanogenerators (NGs) …

MARSBot: A Bristle-Bot Microrobot with Augmented Reality Steering Control for Wireless Structural Health Monitoring

A Fath, Y Liu, T Xia, D Huston - Micromachines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Microrobots are effective for monitoring infrastructure in narrow spaces. However, they have
limited computing power, and most of them are not wireless and stable enough for …

Application of piezoelectric PLLA braided cord as wearable sensor to realize monitoring system for indoor dogs with less physical or mental stress

Y Tajitsu, J Takarada, T Hikichi, R Sugii, K Takatani… - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
We attempted to realize a prototype system that monitors the living condition of indoor dogs
without physical or mental burden by using a piezoelectric poly-l-lactic acid (PLLA) braided …

Smart Sensors and Microtechnologies in the Precision Medicine Approach against Lung Cancer

GM Stella, S Lettieri, D Piloni, I Ferrarotti, F Perrotta… - Pharmaceuticals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background and rationale. The therapeutic interventions against lung cancer are currently
based on a fully personalized approach to the disease with considerable improvement of …

Review on Cutting-Edge Innovations in Carbon Nanomaterials Reinforced Silicone Rubber Composites for Flexible Electronics and Healthcare Devices

V Kumar, N Parvin, SS Park, SW Joo… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Silicone rubber has emerged as a versatile material with significant advancements driving
its application in flexible electronics and healthcare devices. This review explores the cutting …

Current status and future application of electrically controlled micro/nanorobots in biomedicine

R Pu, X Yang, H Mu, Z Xu, J He - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Using micro/nanorobots (MNRs) for targeted therapy within the human body is an emerging
research direction in biomedical science. These nanoscale to microscale miniature robots …

From theory to application: Exploring the motion dynamics of microrobots

S Soorani, M Bayareh - Microchemical Journal, 2025 - Elsevier
Microrobots are becoming revolutionary instruments in many domains, especially
biomedical applications where their capacity to maneuver through intricate settings and …